I have a really crappy list of contenders so far, and I can't tell if it's me or the contenders. (Imagine it's a little of both.)
Albums-wise, I really want to write something about Kendrick Lamar and PBS -- PBSification in the DNA of the album, which is quite good, but it's unmistakably "good for you," too. Problem is, I don't actually want to write about the Kendrick Lamar album (yet? Maybe ever).
Everything else is just kind of a tasteful/pleasantish wash. The only things that are coming close to making me go "huh" are Kate Tempest (from 2014), whom for some reason I'm thinking of as Kate Nash as an overachiever brainiac, and Rae Sremmurd, which is delightfully obnoxious. And maybe the album from Heems, which is much more consciously in convo with PBS but is somewhat transparent about it and doesn't bug me like KL does.
Singles are all over the map, include in no particular order:
Ty Dolla $ign f. Charli XCX and Tinashe: Drop That Kitty Maliibu N Helene: Figure 8 Aronchupa: I'm an Albatraoz Rihanna: Bitch Better Have My Money Daphne & Celeste & Max: You and I Alone Kendrick Lamar: King Kunta
Hard to consider Jukebox faves from D'Angelo, Taylor Swift, and Miranda Lambert as 2015.
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Albums-wise, I really want to write something about Kendrick Lamar and PBS -- PBSification in the DNA of the album, which is quite good, but it's unmistakably "good for you," too. Problem is, I don't actually want to write about the Kendrick Lamar album (yet? Maybe ever).
Everything else is just kind of a tasteful/pleasantish wash. The only things that are coming close to making me go "huh" are Kate Tempest (from 2014), whom for some reason I'm thinking of as Kate Nash as an overachiever brainiac, and Rae Sremmurd, which is delightfully obnoxious. And maybe the album from Heems, which is much more consciously in convo with PBS but is somewhat transparent about it and doesn't bug me like KL does.
Singles are all over the map, include in no particular order:
Ty Dolla $ign f. Charli XCX and Tinashe: Drop That Kitty
Maliibu N Helene: Figure 8
Aronchupa: I'm an Albatraoz
Rihanna: Bitch Better Have My Money
Daphne & Celeste & Max: You and I Alone
Kendrick Lamar: King Kunta
Hard to consider Jukebox faves from D'Angelo, Taylor Swift, and Miranda Lambert as 2015.